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Project: Happily Ever After: Saving Your Marriage When the Fairytale Falters by Alisa Bowman
thehlb's review
2.0
An anecdotal self-help book about a writer of self-help books who turns to self-help books in order to fix her marriage.
The pros:
This reads more like a memoir than a self help books, though it does include little nuggets of advice, some of which are good.
Though the author has a successful blog, it does not read like a collection of blog posts. Hallelujah!
I like that the author turned to books first to solve her problems, as any crisis in my life is also met with excessive reading.
The cons:
The book title reads like a self help book, which I'm sure is intended, but I'm not sure that this is really a self-help book. The advice seems very specific to her own marriage and situation and not super generalized.
*Her previous self help books are like, "The 7 Day Slim Down" or "The 90 Second Fitness Solution."
Like Eat, Pray, Love, I grew weary of her self-centeredness. "I'm not happy. Why aren't you making me happy???" is boring to read about.
I realize that this is commenting on her specific marriage, but still...referring to your husband as "clueless, blockead, or numbnut" is not productive.
The pros:
This reads more like a memoir than a self help books, though it does include little nuggets of advice, some of which are good.
Though the author has a successful blog, it does not read like a collection of blog posts. Hallelujah!
I like that the author turned to books first to solve her problems, as any crisis in my life is also met with excessive reading.
The cons:
The book title reads like a self help book, which I'm sure is intended, but I'm not sure that this is really a self-help book. The advice seems very specific to her own marriage and situation and not super generalized.
*Her previous self help books are like, "The 7 Day Slim Down" or "The 90 Second Fitness Solution."
Like Eat, Pray, Love, I grew weary of her self-centeredness. "I'm not happy. Why aren't you making me happy???" is boring to read about.
I realize that this is commenting on her specific marriage, but still...referring to your husband as "clueless, blockead, or numbnut" is not productive.
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